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Tips: Miscellaneous Friendster “Sweetener” Tips

oeyzone — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:00:38 +0000

Hi all, this is my post respond to question on how to add custom emoticon on my friendster comment. Just try to share the idea.

Tips #1 : Add Custom Emoticon on Friendster Comment Box

Actually, it isn’t that hard to add emoticon image to friendster’s comment box. If u’re familiar with html, then this wouldn’t be any matter at all, but for those who didn’t, hopely this could be usefull.

First of all, we need the emoticons image source site. For ur reference, u can use Yahoo! Messenger’s Emoticons (standard emoticons or hidden emoticons) or maybe u got other site referals. Open the site until it display all the emoticons preview. Right click on which emoticon image u want to use, and select “Copy Image Address” (for Opera user) or “Copy Image Location“ (for FireFox user). *) For Internet Explorer users, right click on the image and select properties, copy all text in “Address: (URL)” section.
Select the profile u want to add comment from Friendster, and then prepare to write the comment for them.
To add image inside the comment box, just type:
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Replace the text [paste_here] with the image link you have copied on step 1. The result should be like this:

There, that’s all we need to do.

I prefer emoticons from Yahoo!Messenger because they had small file size, use transparency (white BG image might looks awfull if the BG color of friendster profile is in other colour), small image size (22×18 pixels), and nice looks..

But, here’s another emoticon site referal (dun hv transparency): www.addEmoticon.com.

Tips #2 : Custom Background in Friendster Profile

Edit an image file you want to use as friendster background (use photoshop or other image processing software).

Upload it to your friendster profile or other image hosting sites.

Copy the image link you had upload (please see Tips #1: step 1). Make sure the image link you had copy is in the real size (not thumbnail)

Customize your Friendster Profile using Friendster CSS Generator (Michael’s Friendster Profile Editor).

Paste the image url from step #3 to section PAGE BACKGROUND, Image URL. Generate the css and copy-paste it to Friendster’s Customize Profile and click “save”.

Refresh yor friendster profile. The BG image should be changed now.

More info, send me private mail msg to oeyzone@yahoo.com

Trick: Search for files @Rapidshare (or any other file sharing site)

oeyzone — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:39:23 +0000

This might be an old trick of using Google to search for files in specified site, but for those who dont know before, here it is..

Copy and paste this link to your address bar, and Go..

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=.rar+OR+.zip+OR+.pdf+OR+.exe+
site%3Arapidshare.com&btnG=Search

The actual implementation of this url link is search for keyword: “.rar OR .zip OR .pdf OR .exe site:rapidshare.com” in Google.

.rar, .zip, .pdf, and .exe is the filetype u wish to search in RapidShare (or any other site u want in the keyword “site:…”), since most of the file stored in rapidshare using these kinda extension.

If this trick is too full of meticulous details for you, you might want to use “automated” site such as http://www.oneclickfiles.com/. It’s more simple, all u have to do is type a keyword in their “indirect modified-google” search engine.

Links to Free E-Book Sites

oeyzone — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:15:55 +0000

Below is the list of free eBooks’ links i’ve got from the net :
(Note that most of the download link they given is from RapidShare)

http://www.softarchive.net/ebooks/   –> large collections of softw, ebooks, movies, etc..

http://www.ebooksdb.com/  –> register first

http://onlinefreebooks.blogspot.com/

http://ebooksonly.blogspot.com/

http://avaxhome.info/ebooks/

http://read.freeduan.com/article/

http://compucated.blogspot.com/search/label/eBooks

http://ebookscottage.com/

http://www.oneclickfiles.com/e-books/   –> tries to search for ebooks on file sharing site (rapidshare, megaupload, etc..)

http://www.flazx.com/

http://www.freebookspot.com/

http://bigdownload.blogspot.com/

Local Indo Link
–
http://www.geocities.com/pustakaumum/
* due to site’s transfer limitation from geocities that this site used, u might need to try several times before a link can be opened. ;p

Enjoy!

Tricks: How to save FLV video content from YouTube

oeyzone — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:32:01 +0000

YouTube surely become the largest video sharing provider in the web. Anyhow, the video file is meant for web-watch only and cannot be saved directly from the site. Therefore, lots of software is being developed to automatically download the video content based on url address we typed. But, the latest software i tried to do this (YouTube Downloader) seems didn’t succeeded in doing this. A friend of mine told me that these kinda automatic-downloader software is no longer able to do its task, since YouTube already block it. :( phuw, sad newz..

But wait, then i’ve think of something quite handy to keep the video content from YT. Here’s the step-by-step tutorial:

Open your fave web browser (IE, Opera, Firefox, etc..) and clear the cache/temporary dir. You can find the list of browser’s temporary folder below. Make sure u already had the video content’s url (eq. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMWl_5NujBw) u want to save. Type it to the address bar and open it.

Your browser will try to open the page and save all the resources in its temp file/cache dir. ;p Already had the clue? Yupe, our goal is to find the temp file of the video content in the browser’s cache dir. Wait till the video is loaded completely.

Next step, explore the temp file/cache dir of ur browser and search for a .tmp extension file. I think that file would have a size more than 1 Megs. That’s why it’s important to erase all the files in ur browser’s cache dir in step 1. Rename the file to something else u like and change the file extension from “.tmp” to ”.flv”. Copy the file to other place u prefer.

That’s it, the file u’ve copy is the video file, but in a .flv (flash video) file-type. Ordinary video player like Windows Media Player (old) cannot play this kinda file. Therefore there’s two option you can choose: Using alternative player to open the file (FLV Player YouTube, Moyea FLV Player, and Media Player Classic from K-Lite Codec would be fine) or convert the file to other familiar file-type like .avi, .mpg using video converter (FLV to Video Converter).

List of common browser’s Temporary File/Cache directory:

IE : C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\

Opera: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\cache4

FireFox: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

FYI, i am using Opera Web Browser and succeeded in saving Canon Rock video from YT. Further comments from you indeed needed bout this post..

Alternative Application Development Software

oeyzone — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:49:58 +0000

REALbasic

REALbasic is a rapid application development environment that compiles native applications for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

Interesting? Seems to be an alternative engine to  develop an application, huh? The latest version is REALbasic Pro 2007 r4. For those who already familiar with BASIC (Visual Basic, etc) language, i think it wouldn’t be too difficult to learn it.

Its ability to create cross-platform application will become a plus point. Yet, there’r some site that provide resources for REALbasic developer, such as RBGarage, RBMagazine, and REAL forums.

PhotoShop Design Elements

oeyzone — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:37:43 +0000

I just found some nice Adobe PhotoShop™ resources on the Net. I realized that there are so many design elements we can share over the internet.

Here are some site that provide us some nice digital artworks of them:

Deziner’s Folio : Dezinerfolio is a site run by Navdeep and Naveen (brothers) from Bangalore, India. Great stuff, nice resources (WordPress Theme, CSS Sytle, Design Links)

13Sytles : 13styles is all about css website navigation menus. The menus are list based, very light-weight, easy to implement, and cross-browser compliant. Some of the css menus are free and some require you to purchase rights to use them.

11amDesign : 11amDesign is rapidly becoming the internet’s largest tutorial index catering to graphic designers, webmasters and programmers. 11amDesign is also the provider of many additional resources to our guests, such as articles, programming script and source code, free graphics and stock photography and much more!

brusheezy : A place for artists to download and vote for the best custom photoshop brushes and photoshop patterns on the internet! This site is updated every day so check back often and Submit your own!

First Post

oeyzone — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:32:04 +0000

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